I have quickly browsed through the Creating of a Tournament process on Live. I have not really examined it well though.

If this thing is as easy to set up as Links, I think we should do a really quick 8 man tournament or something, just for shits and giggles, to try and test it out.

If anyone knows the minute details in setting up/joining one of these, feel free to share.

Unless someone beats me to it (and by all means feel free to do this if you want to), I will create a small 8-man tournament when I get home from work today. The first 8 people to sign up will participate. It won't count for bragging rights or anything like that. It will simply be a way to 'test the waters' for the Real Tournament that Eco is setting up.

Now, I don't remember if the Admin. of the tournament has to send out invites necessarily, or if any would-be participant simply needs to go into the Join Tournament screen and type in the name and password to join it.

It should be very easy to get 8 willing gg/cg test subjects to try this thing out though, wouldn't you think?

Thoughts?

LD

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"Let your enemies fear, for a harlequin of the Laughing God dances at your side."

Long ago, I was the lead tester on Empire Earth. I had a team of about 12 guys working with me, and we were trying to make the day more entertaining by giving creative names to our multiplayer games and players. The game name determined what you had to choose as your player name. Nude Celebrities was the game name. So... I picked Nude Rick James. It's the name that I now do most of my online gaming with.

Well, the first game officially completed, in a bad way. Soulbringer and I were tied in the 4th quarter when all of the sudden the 'network conditions were too bad to continue.' Stinks. I guess arbitration awarded the victory to him, since he was playing a lot better than me anyhow.

Best play of the game: Rams throw the ball, Julius Peppers tips it at the line and intercepts it. He makes it about 2 steps before getting hit by one of the members of the Rams OL.... and FUMBLES THE BALL! St. Louis OL falls on the ball and recovers it - 1st and 10 for the Rams! Cool! but Damn! Here's how it's listed online:

Well i dont know that I was playing much better than you. Other than that first drive of mine and the stupid non field goal i didnt get at the end of the half, you were moving the ball in the air pretty good and stuffing me. Was still lots of fun and its cool to see the stats and stuff online like that.

Funny story. I played against your VIP earlier today cause I couldn't get into a real game. This was before the brackets were set, so that is kinda funny. Anyway, I played on 9 minute quarters. This is no lie, the final score was 10 - 9. If our real game is that defensive, I will laugh. In 36 minutes of game time, we had a total of 17 first downs between us. You picked me off 4 freakin' times!!!!

Can't wait to play "for real".

LD

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"Let your enemies fear, for a harlequin of the Laughing God dances at your side."

demonigizer and i just had a tough defensive game in the buffalo rain. i ended up prevailing 13-3, sealing it when jamal lewis broke through for a TD run near the end of the game. the whole game was great fun, and i love how the statistics are saved instantly. a league would kick some serious butt.

TML and I gear up to play a great game. We finally figure out how to hook up, chat for awhile, and decide this is going to be great fun. I state to him I am leary of the ESPN server stability until they fix it, and with my luck, we'll be lucky to make it into the 3rd quarter.

READY FOR THIS ?

I run one play. ONE MOTHER F***ING PLAY.

Disconnect!

I was credited with the win with a grand total of 3 yards rushing.

I am cursed!

Sorry about that TML. I would GLADLY forfeit and let you continue if I could.

Sega/VC/ESPN can't fix these servers fast enough as far as I'm concerned. I'm glad they are aware of the problems and working on a patch!

I KNEW it was a good idea to do a practice run!

LD :wink:

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"Let your enemies fear, for a harlequin of the Laughing God dances at your side."

This is going to be a SERIOUS RANT post... so cover the children's ears:

The goddamn networking issues with this game are pissing me off more than any words can express. I swear to God, if the gameplay wasn't so addicting, I would toss this game off the highest building in downtown Philadelphia, watch it hit the ground, then take the elevator to the floor, go into the street, and go postal on what's left of this piece of shit with a monster crowbar.

Not only have I been disconnected from my last 2 games (both of which I would have won, but that is the least of my concerns), my drops are now as high as my games completed! With the exception of Scoop, I can NEVER get the voice to work, watch "waiting for opponent" so much it is hardcoded into my optic nerve, and have to deal with bullshit lag that is driving me right the hell off the nut!

Now, I know some people are having few problems... guess what? I'm not one of them!

Nope, not done yet!!!!

Then, I try to go into our Tournament to 'Advance to the Next Round'. After waiting AT LEAST 5 minutes in between all the screens to navigate the tournament menus, it tells me it's not able to advance the tournament at this point in time! Try again later. Eat my ass VC!!!!

Can not wait for this fix to come out!

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O.K. Now:

First, to everyone in the tournament: I will try to advance it in the morning, when supposedly things are alot quieter on the servers. Maybe, and I stress MAYBE, that will give us more luck.

Second, Pr0ner, good game.... at least up until the last minute when the network (at least on my end) went flat on it's face.

Well, I guess something actually worked, I was able to (on my 3rd try I think) get the tournament advanced. Good luck.

LD :evil:

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"Let your enemies fear, for a harlequin of the Laughing God dances at your side."

I hate to say this but I have played at least 20 online games in the last 5 days or so and never had a problem except the voice didn't work when I played LD the second time. Also I could not hear Caveman but I'm not sure if he uses a mic. Not sure why, but I don't want to jinx myself :lol:

By the way I set up another 8 man GG tournament on another thread. Name : Gonegold2Pass: gold

We have 7 so far. Need 1 more to start. Looks like a lot of power teams so it should be fun.